Performance Studies / Edition 1

by Erin Striff

Overview

One of the first collections of articles on performance studies, this reader maps the field for those new to the discipline and shows the way in which a variety of events and rituals may be read as performance. The articles included help clarify what constitutes performance studies, as well as providing a valuable introduction to the many theoretical perspectives, including feminist, queer, post-structuralist, and post-colonial theories, which are used to read performance in culture. Acts considered range from those that can be easily identified as performance, such as the strip show, to those that are more theoretically complex, such as performative speech.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333786741
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Series:	Readers in Cultural Criticism , #9
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	213
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

ERIN STRIFF is Assistant Professor of English at Hartford University, USA. She has published on feminist theatre and performance art.
ERIN STRIFF is Assistant Professor of English at Hartford University, USA. She has published on feminist theatre and performance art.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Locating Performance Studies; E.Striff
POPULAR PERFORMANCE
The Power Team: Muscular Christianity and the Spectacle of Conversion; S.Mazer
Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent; B.Lindfors
Striptease: Desire, Mimetic Jeopardy, and Performing Spectators; K.Liepe-Levinson
PERFORMING BODIES, PERFORMANCE ART
The Surgical Self: Body Alteration and Identity; P. Auslander
Reconsidering Homophobia: Karen Finley's Indiscretions; L.Hart
PERFORMING HISTORIES/MEMORIES
Spectacular Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence and Witness at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; V.M.Patraka
Hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Tomas; P.Phelan
PERFORMANCE AND THE WORLD
The Street is the Stage; R.Schechner
Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World; J.Roach
Jewels Brought Back from Bondage: Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity; P.Gilroy
PERFORMATIVITY/PERFORMANCE
Critically Queer; J.Butler
Choreographies of Gender; S.L.Foster
Summaries and Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.